TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rajshekhar,M
TI  - DESPITE THE STATE :  Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope 
SN  - 9788194879015
U1  - 321.80954 
PY  - 2020////01/01
CY  - Chennai
PB  - Contxt
KW  - Democratic Crisis
KW  -  democratic failure
N1  - The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwarks of democratic functioning—the states—get overlooked. This is a tale of India’s states, of why they build schools but do not staff them with teachers; favour a handful of companies so much that others slip into losses; wage water wars with their neighbours while allowing rampant sand mining and groundwater extraction; harness citizens’ right to vote but brutally crack down on their right to dissent. Reporting from six states over thirty-three months, award-winning investigative journalist M. Rajshekhar delivers a necessary account of a deep crisis that has gone largely unexamined
ER  -